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Quality Designer (The Sims)

Multiple Locations: Orlando, FL, USA • Seattle, WA, USA • Pasadena, CA, USA • Vancouver, BC, Canada • Sacramento, CA, USA

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Requisition Number: 173541

Position Title: Quality Designer I

External Description:

Development Technology & Solutions

Development Technology & Solutions is a partner of EA Studios. They span four continents, bringing together diverse individuals passionate about their craft from across the globe. They partner in every development phase while improving their expertise to create greater experiences for players. DTS participates in creating some of the most beloved games and supports ongoing live services. Through the latest technology, data-driven insights, and practices, they promote quality and directly impact players. They are a learning organization, sharing collaboratively and exploring creative ways to solve challenges in creating amazing games for millions of players worldwide.

Are you interested in joining Maxis, and in being part of an established & experienced team? We are hiring a Quality Designer for Sims 4! This is an opportunity to join a veteran team and work on one of the most storied franchises in gaming history.

Quality Designers are individual contributors specialized in domains of the QV process (Quality Verification). You will embed within the Development organization, improving QV practices across the team, sharing knowledge, and managing an important piece of or the entire test plan.

Quality Designer collects, analyze and use data to guide their daily decisions. Essential items to focus on include: balance and tuning, features and systems, customer data, processes and workflows, the proper selection of metrics to use, and how to analyze/combine data.

Responsibilities:

  • Your primary responsibility is end-to-end ownership of feature quality strategy.
  • You will partner with senior development, production, design, and QV team members to ensure that we create high-quality features from both a functional and qualitative perspective.
  • You will guide feature quality by analyzing internal development & live player data, feature completing testing strategies, and conducting design reviews.
  • You can expect to partner with production to improve feature quality through establishing feedback processes and explaining applicable suggestions on how the features could be improved for our players.
  • You will be an important advocate for our "Player First" strategy, and that advocacy will inform decisions you make every day.
  • You value understanding the end-to-end customer experience and can translate that into test strategies for a product or a feature.
  • You will be a mentor to local and remote test teams to help them find solutions to complex problems and grow their capabilities as feature owners and testers.
  • You will provide valuable input to the management team as you help set goals for the team and your QV peers.
  • You will identify risks to the feature and overall project as early as possible, partnering with the development and other partner teams to help determine mitigation strategies.
  • You have an advanced understanding of the importance of metrics and analytics, can use them when doing research and providing feedback priority.
  • You can propose and enact solutions to development process problems.
  • You can report progress, current status, and risks to your features through regular email or face-to-face communication with peers, managers, and partners across the organization.
  • You will work directly with QV Engineering and Data Analyst team members to provide a comprehensive picture of your feature's testing status and development progress, considering both automation and data visualizations.
  • You will partner with engineers to apply automation and tools to improve the QA process, and are testing ROI to team members.
  • Once you develop an understanding of the game's features and systems, you can establish telemetry to provide valuable insights to the testing and development teams.
  • You are comfortable sharing domain knowledge within the team; you find anything within EA that may aid in your job execution.
  • You provide task breakdowns, planning, dependencies, and time estimates for your assignments.
  • You can break down a design document and produce an easily maintainable test strategy that can be understood and run with remote partners.

Experience:

  • You have experience with all phases of game development from concept to live support across multiple titles
  • You have experience developing on multiple platforms, including PC, Mac, Playstation, and Xbox. The mobile experience is desired for this role.
  • In-depth knowledge of AAA software/game development best practices, including experience working with both Agile and waterfall methodologies
  • Your experience and technical ability to author scripts and debug gameplay logic using proprietary or commercial game engines
  • You hold experience compiling data points spanning multiple sources into a cohesive, consumable, and summary to senior team members
  • Advanced ability to use industry-standard defect and task tracking tools, such as JIRA, DevTrack, TestRail, and Hansoft
  • 1+ years of experience using game development tools to enhance white and gray-box testing strategies
  • An understanding of industry-standard CI/CD pipelines, including familiarity with Perforce, Jenkins, and other build delivery tools
  • 1+ years of experience working with and defining requirements for engineers to develop automation solutions and other tools to enhance test strategies
  • You will interpret and use data visualizations to provide applicable insights to development teams to reduce risk

 

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We are a global team of creators, storytellers, technologists, experience originators, innovators and so much more. We believe amazing games and experiences start with teams as diverse as the players and communities we serve. At Electronic Arts, the only limit is your imagination.

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About Electronic Arts

Everything we do is designed to inspire the world to play. Through our cutting-edge games, innovative services, and powerful technologies, we bring worlds with infinite possibilities to millions of players and fans around the globe.

We’re looking for collaborative and inclusive people with diverse perspectives who will enrich our culture and challenge us. We take a holistic approach with our benefits program, focusing on physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support our people through every chapter of life. We provide comprehensive benefit packages and support for a balanced life with paid time off and new parent leave, plus free games and so much more. Our goal is to provide a safe and respectful workplace that empowers you to thrive in both work and life.

Electronic Arts is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will also consider employment qualified applicants with criminal records in accordance with applicable law. EA also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.

Days Open: 22

Can this position be remote?: 1

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About Electronic Arts

Everything we do is designed to inspire the world to play. Through our cutting-edge games, innovative services, and powerful technologies, we bring worlds with infinite possibilities to millions of players and fans around the globe.

We’re looking for collaborative and inclusive people with diverse perspectives who will enrich our culture and challenge us. We take a holistic approach with our benefits program, focusing on physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support our people through every chapter of life. We provide comprehensive benefit packages and support for a balanced life with paid time off and new parent leave, plus free games and so much more. Our goal is to provide a safe and respectful workplace that empowers you to thrive in both work and life.

Electronic Arts is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will also consider employment qualified applicants with criminal records in accordance with applicable law. EA also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.

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